Print journalism struggles for survival
There is a lot of talk these days about print journalism and how it suffers owing to declining revenues and ...
Tag: Watani
Waste recycling: When actions belie words
The garbage predicament, or rather disaster, has become a scourge threatening Egyptians, a dilemma of huge proportions and intertwined causes ...
Legalising an undoable process
A law was passed in Egypt a year ago to regulate the parking of vehicles on streets, following which the Minister ...
Egypt’s unlicensed churches: 52.5% legalised in 46 months
I have taken it upon myself to closely monitor the file of legalising the 3730 unlicensed churches and Church affiliated ...
Report card on Egypt’s Tokyo 2020
Like many others in Egypt and around the world, I avidly followed the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games which ran from ...
Achievements and questions: Khedival Cairo
Egypt has this year marked eight years on its massive 30 June 2013 Revolution which led to the overthrow of ...
New Alamein City: The ultimate conciliation
Last week I wrote about the 250km stretch of Egypt’s sparsely inhabited north Mediterranean coast west of Alexandria, which had ...
New Alamein: Answer to north coast dilemma
Egypt’s north Mediterranean coast, which extends some 500km from Alexandria to Salloum, is the choice destination of thousands of Egyptian ...
Questions and failures: New Administrative Capital
Ever since President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi announced, in the 2015 Sharm al-Sheikh Economic Forum, the plan for a mega project of ...
Achievements and failures: Egypt’s roads and traffic
As Egypt marks eight years on the massive Revolution of 30 June 2013 which overthrew the post-Arab Spring Muslim Brotherhood ...
Egypt’s education reform: Achievements and failures
I preferred to put off this editorial, which I had a mind to write a few weeks ago, till after ...
Coronavirus conspiracy?
The outbreak of coronavirus in winter 2019 leading to the COVID-19 pandemic, has given rise to unwavering endeavours by experts ...
Islamism gains ground
Given that Watani International is this year marking 20 years in print—our first issue was printed on 18 February 2001—we ...
Safety First: The absent culture
The prevalent culture in Egypt in case of emergency is to shout for help. Egyptians are notorious for lacking the ...
Public benefit vs throwing citizens in the street
Egypt’s government is going ahead full speed with an ambitious project to solve Cairo’s notorious traffic problem, through building new ...
Watani started as an Egyptian weekly Sunday newspaper published in Cairo. The word Watani is Arabic for “My Homeland”. The paper was founded in 1958 by the prominent Copt Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995), who strove for the establishment of a civil, democratic society in Egypt, where all Egyptians would enjoy full citizenship rights regardless of their religious denomination. To this day when Watani is published as a weekly paper and an online news site, the objective remains the same. Those in charge of Watani view this role as a patriotic all-Egyptian vocation. Special attention is given to shedding light on Coptic culture and tradition as authentically Egyptian, this being a topic largely disregarded or little-understood by Egypt’s media. Watani is deeply dedicated to offer its readers high quality, extensive, objective, credible and well-researched media coverage, with special focus on Coptic issues, culture, heritage, and contribution to Egyptian society.
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